PARKHEAD will host the showpiece curtain raiser for next month's Games and these pictures show the transformation is well underway.

WORK is well underway to revamp Celtic Park ahead of the showpiece Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on July 23.

As these pictures show, the home of the Scottish champions is quickly turning from a football park into a venue fit for a multi-million pound carnival.

The turf has been completely covered by wooden flooring while the scoreboard is set to make way for a giant LED screen which will reduce the capacity of the ground to 35,000.

Global events specialists Jack Morton Worldwide are organising the ceremony which will feature a cast of more than 1000 performers as well as the 4500 athletes from all 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth.

The message the Queen placed in the Commonwealth baton will be read out during the ceremony.

She is expected to be joined at Celtic Park by David Cameron and Alex Salmond, along with dignitaries and government leaders from all over the world.